Daisy is seen wearing white throughout her appearances.
Green: Symbolizes new money, and hope. Also shows Gatsby's reoccuring personal conflict between his wealth and dreams
The green light
The green tickets for the trains
Yellow: Symbolizes an upcoming death or moral decay
The yellow car that killed Myrtle
The chauffeur asks Gatsby if he needed help carrying the mattress and he "shook his head and in a moment disappeared among
the yellowing trees"
Daisy says to her daughter, "Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair?"
Gold: Symbolizes success or being valuable
At Gatsby's parties, the "..turkeys bewitched to a dark gold"
Nick says "I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder"
Gray: Symbolizes being dull and not important. Also it represents the decline of each character's dreams thoughout the novel.
"Grey little villages in France"
"The grey windows disappeared" at Gatsby's house
Blue: Symbolizes depression and unhappiness and yet shows hope for the future and a different world.
At Gatsby's funeral, Nick says "He had come a long way to this blue lawn"
Tom's blue car
symbolizes his inferiority complex
Think of Tom's relationship with Daisy, and how he doesn't feel as good as her. Also think about the state of Gatsby's relationship with Daisy while they were in Tom's car.
Tom and Daisy's relationship was unsuccessful, thus a representation of the color blue. It was based on mone opposed to love.
The "blue smoke of brittle" that hangs over the East Coast
Represents the corruption of the East Coast and Nick's wanting to go to the Midwest.
The limit of the sky
Symbolizes the illusion of Gatsby's dreams
Gatsby's Lawn
Blue also represents a fantasy and Gatsby's parties on his blue lawn is just the escape from reality that the guests stive for.
White: Symbolizes purity
The white dresses and white powder conceal the yellow/tan skin of Jordan and Daisy; conceals the girls amoral values
Lavendar: Indulgence ; deeds done by the rich
Gatsby's rooms are lavendar and he wears lavendar shirts
Gatsby sends a girl a dress with lavendar beads
Myrtle selects the lavender taxicab
Red:The color red is used to represent any conflict and competition. It is consistently pictured with money and displayed with the situation between Daisy and Tom. Death- The small puddle of blood left in the pool from Gatsby
- The blood stains left on Wilson's shop table from Myrtle
White: Symbolizes innocence
Green: Symbolizes new money, and hope. Also shows Gatsby's reoccuring personal conflict between his wealth and dreams
- The green light
- The green tickets for the trains
Yellow: Symbolizes an upcoming death or moral decay- The yellow car that killed Myrtle
- The chauffeur asks Gatsby if he needed help carrying the mattress and he "shook his head and in a moment disappeared among
the yellowing trees"- Daisy says to her daughter, "Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair?"
Gold: Symbolizes success or being valuable- At Gatsby's parties, the "..turkeys bewitched to a dark gold"
- Nick says "I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder"
Gray: Symbolizes being dull and not important. Also it represents the decline of each character's dreams thoughout the novel.- "Grey little villages in France"
- "The grey windows disappeared" at Gatsby's house
Blue: Symbolizes depression and unhappiness and yet shows hope for the future and a different world.White: Symbolizes purity
Lavendar: Indulgence ; deeds done by the rich
Red:The color red is used to represent any conflict and competition. It is consistently pictured with money and displayed with the situation between Daisy and Tom.
Death- The small puddle of blood left in the pool from Gatsby
- The blood stains left on Wilson's shop table from Myrtle